@archimedes-market/mcp

MCP server for Archimedes Market — let your AI agent discover verified deep-tech engineering bounties from any MCP-aware client.

What it does

Exposes one tool to your AI agent:

• search_bounties — search open bounties on Archimedes by free-text query, category, funding status, and price band. Returns title, summary, payout in cents (USD), deadline, and a public URL per bounty.

Every bounty Archimedes lists is funded in Stripe escrow before engineers see it, and every submission is AI-verified (Semgrep + OpenAI code review + license scan) before the buyer sees it. No agent will surface a bounty that doesn't have real money behind it.

Install

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "archimedes": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@archimedes-market/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The search_bounties tool will appear in the available tools list.

Cursor

Settings → MCP → Add server. Use the same config block as above.

Continue / other stdio clients

Point the client at:

npx -y @archimedes-market/mcp

Non-stdio clients (server-side agents, hosted bots)

Skip this package entirely — call the hosted HTTP endpoint directly:

POST https://archimedes.market/api/mcp
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "search_bounties",
    "arguments": { "query": "MCP server", "limit": 5 }
  }
}

Full docs: https://archimedes.market/mcp

Example agent queries

"Find me open Archimedes bounties for KiCad PCB review under $3,000."

"Are there any MCP-server bounties on Archimedes right now? Show me the top 5 by payout."

"Search Archimedes for digital twin bounties — sort by deadline."

The tool returns both a human-readable text block (for the model to reason over) and a structured payload (for downstream tooling).

Configuration

Env var	Default	Purpose
ARCHIMEDES_PUBLIC_API_URL	https://archimedes.market	Override the upstream base URL (preview deployments, local dev)
ARCHIMEDES_MCP_USER_AGENT	mcp-archimedes/0.1 (+https://archimedes.market)	Override the User-Agent sent on outbound calls

Health check

Verify the bridge can reach the upstream API before wiring it into a client:

npx @archimedes-market/mcp --probe

Exit code 0 means upstream is reachable. Non-zero with stderr diagnostic on failure.

Privacy

The Archimedes public API logs query_hash (SHA-256 of normalized params) and ip_hash (HMAC with daily-rotated salt) per call — never raw queries or raw IPs. 90-day retention. Zero-result queries are aggregated to inform what bounties Archimedes should source next.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Links

• Hosted MCP endpoint: https://archimedes.market/api/mcp
• REST API: https://archimedes.market/api/public/bounties
• Browse bounties: https://archimedes.market/bounties
• MCP spec: https://modelcontextprotocol.io